5 thoughts on “A hack for mintty to use as Windows command console cmd”

I feel your pain, but I’m sorry to say that running cmd.exe in mintty won’t work very well, because cmd.exe really wants to run in a Windows console rather than in a terminal based on Cygwin pseudo terminal (pty) devices.

While the basics of entering and correcting a command with backspace are fine, things like tab completion or recalling previous commands aren’t. Even just moving the cursor along the command line won’t work correctly.